1-CD with 16-page booklet, 18 tracks, app. 46 min • Lou Cifer & The Hellions - one of the most popular bands of Germany's Teddy Boy scene - now on Bear Family! • Sixth album of the rock ’n’ roll band from the Ruhr region, the large...

1-CD Digipak (6-plated) with 40-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 76mns. • Little Junior Parker was a star in the world of the Chitlin’ Circuit, but largely unknown in the white blues/rock scene. • First-ever recollection of...

Vinyl-LP, 18 tracks. • Lou Cifer & The Hellions - one of the most popular bands of Germany's Teddy Boy scene - now on Bear Family! • Sixth album of the rock ’n’ roll band from the Ruhr region, the large industrial area in Western...

1-CD Digipak (6-plated) with 40-page booklet, 36 tracks. Playing time approx. 73 mns. • February 3 commemorates the anniversary of the death of Ritchie Valens. • In retrospect, the young rocker had only eight months to record his entire...

2-LP-180g Set, gatefold sleeve , 15 tracks • Reissue of the fourth and last album project by one of the most innovative German bands of the day, the Petards. • Recorded in the famous Dierks-Studio in Stommeln. • Double album with strong,...

1-CD with 24-page booklet, 40 tracks, including six radio broadcasts. Total playing time 78:32 mins. • Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash. • February 3, 1959 will always be remembered as ‘the day the...

Bear Family Vinyl Club Exclusives 10" LP series limited to 500 copies on colored vinyl! Originally released in 1961 on the Dutch Imperial label. Reproduction of an almost unaffordable 10"LP when in great condition. Attention: this is not...

• Very rare LP album, originally released 1969 on the local Atman label from Trinidad with the catalog number 151. • Innovative mixture of different Caribbean and US-American musical styles, Latin Jazz, Funk, Calypso and Folk. • Andre...

· Five years of Cree Records are a good reason to celebrate! · On this occasion we have thought about an exclusive project: · We asked some of our DJ friends to choose their favorites from our catalogue. · Tropical Tricks - four remixes...

Bear Family Vinyl Club Exclusives 10" LP series limited to 500 copies on colored vinyl! • Vince Taylor is one of the very first British rock legends! • His Brand New Cadillac is one of the few rock classics from before the Beatles and...

1-CD with 24 pages booklet, 27 tracks, approx. 75 min. All good things come in threes! The Bear Family team sends our own 'Season's Greetings' now the third time! An exceptionally danceable compilation of Christmas songs from the fields...

The Shadow Knows 34 Scorching Tracks From The World Of Horror 1-CD with 24-page booklet, 34 tracks. Total playing time approx. 76:45 minutes. • Bear Family's nightmarish contribution to the Halloween season and other dark nights of...

Tex Harper alias Rudy Preston and Harry Head 10'' Vinyl in gatefold sleeve 1-LP (10”), total number of tracks: 12. Total playing time 26:35 minutes. ‘’The ‘Cat Music’ within this album is the nucleus of rockabilly and features: Tex...

1-CD with 40-page booklet, 33 tracks. Total playing time c. 79 minutes. • Hank Cochran is a vocalist, guitar picker and as an esteemed songwriter of numerous hit recordings. • For many Hank will be known as one-half of the Cochran...

1-CD with 40-page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time c. 68 minutes. • Hank and Eddie aka The Cochran Brothers with their complete duo and solo vocal performances and additionally as studio musicians. • All the recordings feature both...

Dear customers/Rock'n'Roll friends, unfortunately a mistake happened when transferring the tapes and instead of the Flexi-Disc 'Academy' recording from 1956 the 'Lucky Four' version from 1961 was used on the pressing. We have now...

Vinyl LP (180 gram) with DinA3 poster. 12 tracks. Total playing time 34:50 minutes. • Third in our series with 1:1 vinyl reissues of the four original Petards albums. • At that time the Petards were one of the most popular and successful...

Re-issue of an extremely rare 10" LP from New Zealand! The original was released in 1958, also in England, but with a different cover. Recordings made in 1957 and 1958. 'Rockin' With The Rockets' is the only album released at that time....

1 Vinyl LP (180 gram) in gatefold sleeve. 11 tracks. Playing time approx. 39:07 mns. ​Re-issue of hard-to-find 1971 jazz album, originally recorded and released in Finland. Fascinating fusion of modern jazz and elements of Caribbean...

1-CD Digipak (4-sided) with 52-page booklet. 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 72:14 mns. His 1957 Liberty sessions, re-issued in two different formats. The CD version comes with a comprehensive booklet along with a Digipak. Based on the...

1 CD with 52-page booklet, 29 tracks. Total playing time c. 74 mns. A smart compilation with those songs that inspired Bill Haley. In addition the most important cover versions of his classics! Cross-genre, from Rock 'n' Roll and R&B to...

1 Vinyl LP (180 gram) with DinA3 poster. 11 tracks. Playing time approx. 34:57 mns. Second volume in our series with 1:1 vinyl re-releases of the four original Petards albums. At that time the Petards were one of the most popular and...

12'' Maxi Single in disco sleeve. 2 tracks. Playing time approx. 11:09 mns. Song recorded by Michael Boothman who brought us Tabu and What You Won't Do For Love. Exciting fusion of Disco, Pop and Calypso Extremely hard-to-find and...

Bear Family Records probe deeply into the Hank Williams legacy and breathe new life into the 1960, MGM Records (MGM E 3803) 12 inch album ‘The Lonesome Sound’. - Vinyl reissue of 1960 MGM album. - Originally released as a 12” LP, we have...

33 Rockin' Tracks From The Good Old Summertime 1 CD with 28- page booklet, 33 tracks. Total playing time approx. 75 minutes Summertime with a collection of Rock 'n' Roll, Rhythm 'n' Blues and Pop songs from 1956-1962! The soundtrack to...

1-CD DigiPac (4-sided) with 52-page booklet, 28 tracks, total playing time 77:36 mns. ‘In the 1940s Rhythm ‘n’ Blues recordings the double entendre was left to the listener to decipher, in these 1930s hillbilly songs the meaning was very...

‘Glen Glenn is a name held in high esteem by rockabilly fans and was a second generation artist who developed his own style’. • 12 recordings from the Era label catalog, 1955–1963. • Contains different versions from the originally...

• In 1956, Dale Hawkins (1936 - 2010) wrote Suzie Q - a giant song and a classic of garage rock of the 1960s. • After his years as a musician at Chess Records (1956 - 1961), he recorded for various US labels and worked as a producer. •...

- The first volume &nbsp,in our series with 1:1 vinyl re-issues of the four original Petards albums. - One of the most popular and successful German beat and rock bands. - The first album of the group, originally released in 1967. - New...

32 tracks. Playing time approx. 75:56 minutes. • 32 Fats Domino classics from his voluminous Imperial Records catalog • Some of his greatest hits are on board, including Blueberry Hill and Blue Monday • A wealth of lesser-known standout...

• Band with members from Ghana, Liberia and Trinidad. • Mixture of afrobeat, disco, funk and Caribbean influences. • Very rare original 12". • Supplemented by previously unreleased recordings. At the beginning of the 1980s, Fifi Yawson...

Boom! Boom! Deluxe! are the legendary New Zealand Rock n' Roll and Rockabilly band - Fantastic fun live, playing a a mix of their own songs and authentic 1950's and 1960's classics, as well as a few clever re-workings of modern songs in...

BEAR FAMILY RECORDS – one of the world's leading re-issue labels, know for its classy premium quality box sets, and single CD, DVD, and vinyl releases.

Our label catalog alone contains more than 1,600 releases on Bear Family. Some are multi CD sets with well-researched comprehensive coffee-table size books, some of them weighing several pounds. We are reviving the music, and the artists from long ago.

BEAR FAMILY RECORDS – one of the world's leading re-issue labels, know for its classy premium quality box sets, and single CD, DVD, and vinyl releases.
Our label catalog alone contains...
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BEAR FAMILY RECORDS – one of the world's leading re-issue labels, know for its classy premium quality box sets, and single CD, DVD, and vinyl releases.

Our label catalog alone contains more than 1,600 releases on Bear Family. Some are multi CD sets with well-researched comprehensive coffee-table size books, some of them weighing several pounds. We are reviving the music, and the artists from long ago.